Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-30

absolutely no room on this continent Tor
any other nation. have been across the
country again and again and l know that
we have not half inch of ground for the
equity foot of foreign despotism to stand
on. do not know but that half dozen
nations envious of our prosperity may
want to give US wrestle. During our
civil war there were two or three nations
that could hardly keep their hands
easy to pick national squar-
rels, and if our nation escapes it much
| longer it will be the exception. If
like those of 1912, and like those who
| fought on both sides in 1862. We want
them all up and down the coast, Pulaski
and Fort ESumter, in the same chorus
] Of thunder as Fort Lafayette and Fort
Hamilton, men who will not only know
| how to fight but how to die. When such
time comes, if it ever does come, the
generations on the stage of action will
say: "My country will care for my
family as they did in the Soldiers
Asylum for the ophans in the civil war,
and my country
WILL HONOR MY DUST
as it honors those who preceded me in
patriotic sacrifice, and once year at any
rate on Decoration Day, shall be resur
rected into the remembrance of those for
whom died. Here 60 for God and my
country" If foreign foe should ever
come ell sectional animosities would be
] obliterated. Here go our regiments
| into the battle, side by side,
Fifteenth New York Volunteers,
Tenth Alabams Cavalry, Four
| teenth Pennsylvania Rifemen Tenth
Massachusetts Artillery, Seventh South
Carolina Sharp Shooters. 1 have no faith
in the cry: "No north, no south, no
east, no west" Let all four sections
keep their peculiarities and their prefer
ences, each doing its own work and not
interfering with each other each of the
four carrying it's part in the great har-
mony-the bass, the alto, the tenor, the
| soprano in the grand march Of the Union.
congratulate you, the officers and
soldiers of this National EnCsmpment,
that if foreign attack should at any
time be made you would be ready, and
there would be millions of the drilled
men of north and south, like the men OF
my first text, which could keep rank, and
like the men of my second text, that
would not miss hair breadth.
At this National Drill, when thirty-one
states of the Union are represented,
and between the decoration Of the
graves of the southern dead, which
took place few days ago, and the deco
ration of the graves OF the northern dead.
which shall take place to morrow,I would
stir the Christian patriotism and graft
| tude, not only of this soldiery here pres
ent, but of all the people, by putting be-
! fore them the difference between these
times, when the soldiers of all sections
meet in peace, and the times when
THEY MET IN CONTEST.
Contrast the feeling Of sectional bitter
ness in 1862 With the feeling of sectional
unity in 1887 At the first date the south
had banished the national air, "The Star
| Spangled Banner" and the north had
! banished the popular sir of "Way Down
South in Dixie" The northern people
were "mudsills" and the southern
people were "white trash.' The more
southern people were killed in battle, the
| better the north liked it. The more
northern people were killed in battle, the
! better the south liked 1t. For four years
the hesd of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson
Davis would have been worth $1,000, 900,
! if delivered on either side the line. No
need now, standing in our pulpit and
platforms, of saying that the north and
south did not hate each other. To esti-
mate how very dearly they loved each
other, count up the bombshells that were
hurled and the carbines that were loaded
and he cavalry horses that were mounted,
north and south facing each other, all
armed, in the attempt to kill. The TWO
sections not only marshalled ell their
earthly hostilities, but tried to reach up
/ oO ND n no ,f bao nd
! the prayer of the northern and southern
| pulpits gave more Information to the hesv-
ems about the hest mode of settling this
! trouble than was ever used. For four
| wears both sides tried to get hold of the
! Lords thunderbolts, but could not quite
reach them. At the breaking out Oh the
war we had not for months heard of nv
dear uncle, Samuel j. Talmage, president
of the 0glethorpe University in Georgia.
He was about the grandest man l ever
knew, and as good as good could be. The
| first we heard of him was his opening
prayer in the Confederate Congress in
Richmond, which was reported in the
New York papers, which prayer if an
swered would, to say the least, have left
sill his northern relatives in very uncom-
Portable circumstances. The ministry at
the north prayed one way, and the minis
try at the south prayed the other way
No use in hiding the fact that the north
and the south cursed each other with
whitening and
ALL-COHSUMING CURSE.
Besides that antipathy of war time |
place the complete accord of this time.
Not long ago a meeting in New York was
held to raise money to build home at
Richmond for crippled Confederate SOL
diers, the meeting presided over by
man who lost an arm and 4 leg in fighting
on the northern side, and the leg not lost
so hurt that It does not amount to much.
The cotton exhibition held not long ago
at Atlanta was attended by tens of thou
sands of northern people, and by Gen
eral Sherman, VINO was greeted with
kindness, as though they had never seen
him before. At the new Orleans exhibit
Jion, held two years ago, every northern
state was represented. A thousand fold
kindlier feeling after the war than before
the WaT. No more use of gunpowder in
this country, except for rifle practice, or
Fourth of July pyrotechnics, or shot at
q roebuck in the AdirondackS. Brigadier-
generals in the southern Confederacy
making their fortunes as lawyers i'll the.
northern cities. Rivers of Georgia, Ala
bama and North Carolina turning mills of